Use what you have learned in the lesson and the documents provided in the assignment to answer the question: why did the united states and ussr engage in proxy wars during the cold war?

The United States and the USSR engaged in proxy wars because neither of them wanted to be directly involved with the other as they dreaded the possibility of nuclear warfare. This is because both of the countries had acquired enough nuclear weapons to completely destroy the other

Proxy wars were used by the United States and Soviet Union as a way to fight one another without resorting to actual war between the two nations. The United States tried to use proxy wars to contain communism, as they did in Guatemala by sponsoring a coup. The USSR engaged in a proxy war by supporting communist rebels in Nicaragua. Both nations used this strategy to promote their own influence and security.

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